Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1814  On January - 28 stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On this day in history andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on January - 28.   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name on this day in history.   

1819  On January - 28 sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore   

1820  On this day in history russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.   

1821  On this day in history bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica   

1822  On this day in history alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)   

1824  William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) on this day in history.   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on this day in history.   

1828  On January - 28 michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on January - 28.   

1830  The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1830  On January - 28 opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris   

1831  On this day in history henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  On this day in history franz Wullner, composer   

1833  Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) on this day in history.   

1838  On January - 28 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  On January - 28 the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  On January - 28 henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa)   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on this day in history.   

1848  On January - 28 king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on this day in history.   

1853  Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician on this day in history.   

1855  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway on this day in history.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on January - 28.   

1858  On this day in history john Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry   

1860  Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua on January - 28.   

1864  Battle of New Bern, NC on January - 28.   

1864  Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer on this day in history.   

1865  President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on this day in history.   

1865  On January - 28 pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

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1225  On January - 28 birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on this day in history.   

1457  On January - 28 birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  On January - 28 birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  On January - 28 birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on this day in history.   

1608  On this day in history birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

0814  On January - 28 charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71   

1061  On this day in history death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  On January - 28 gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  Death of Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball on January - 28.   

1443  On this day in history death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On this day in history philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies